Old Farts and the Super Bowl

So, Super Bowl Sunday.....  Snacks? Check.  Comfy blanket within easy reach of Jims chair? Check. DVR taping so we can "pause" and then zip through boring parts and commercials? Double check. 

We. Are. Ready.

Wake up after midnight to find out the Packers won? Check.

Take it outside, boys!

So.... it's been a LONG while (ahem) since my last post. So much has happened this year, it makes my head spin! Here is one such "happening".
My husband and son always love to goof around and wrestle. I make them go outside to save the furniture, knickknacks, really anything that might be in their path.  While cooking dinner one night, I laughingly told them to take it outside, with the famous last words "Don't hurt each other!"  


Then THIS happened! Total separation of the AC joint.

And No he wasn't even on the good drugs yet.....

After the operation and 6 weeks of therapy and recouperation he is almost as good as new!

Theme Music

I am obsessed with blogging. There is no other way to say it. It’s like scrapbooking on steroids. I have pictures, videos… even theme-music (like Peter in “Family Guy”)! THEME MUSIC!!!! Who doesn’t love that?


Admittedly, as a beginner, “newbie” previous non-blogger I am constantly having to figure things out. I mean, who knew the joy, the rapture I would feel when I discovered how to EMBED. Really.

Previous conversation with Jessie:
Me: So today I learned how to EMBED a video to my blog!
Jessie: Oh, you mean an HTML?
Me: No...Oh yeah, that was it. The cut and paste, thing you do in HTML mode.
Jessie: (chuckling) Cool, Mom!

At this point I do not feel cool. But hey! At least I have THEME MUSIC!

So yesterday I wanted to share my experience of skydiving in my blog. (hey, Skydiving is cool..) Problem #1: The DVD of my jump won’t let me copy it.
Problem #2: No matter HOW hard I tried, I couldn’t get the glare/image of me using my camera to tape the DVD (like a Dum-Dum) off.
Problem #3: My video which saved to my computer just fine, was too long to upload to my blog.
Problem #4: This is now an all-day project. That. Won’t. Work.
Problem # 5: I will not be denied.

After calling in all resources, (which meant my son and his friend)…hours later (yes! hours!) I was denied. AND I burned the buns I was toasting for our BBQ sandwich dinner. Where’s the theme-music for that?

Kia Soul.....Soul baby!!

Lori has quit smoking. Her goal : to buy a new car late this Spring and at the moment she has set her sights on the Kia Soul. As a reward and to celebrate her 11th day we set out to test drive one and check it out!

We had so much fun, the weather was warm, gorgeous and sunny! Afterwards we took our lunch to Black Shoals park so Sean (my Nephew) could get some good landscape photo's for his photography class in school. Here are a few of my own..

This is one of the few covered bridges in Georgia.

Here we are picking up a few hard-bodied men....LOL

Sean working at getting just the right shot at the Veteran's Memorial.

GREAT DAY!

Dental Appointment

Today I am taking Nick for his dental cleaning....at our new Dentist.  Since we moved to Loganville, I have been using our regular Dentist, Dr. Cavola.....but driving to Conyers for an appointment was getting old.  I hate change, but this is realistically necessary.  So a few months back, on a Conyers jaunt, I stopped by Dr. Cavola's office and asked for our records and latest X-rays.  How I found our new Dentist was serendipity.....thier office is right next door to our local bowling alley.  Last November on Nicks birthday, the family all met at the bowling alley to play and celebrate.  My daughter's purse was stolen while we bowled.  Long story but it ended happily enough....the Dentist office next door called us to say they had found it in thier front yard!  They were so nice, so I checked them out and decided to adopt them as our new family Dentist!  So here is another great tip:

 **Cut down the time you spend in a doctor’s waiting room by having the office fax or e-mail any forms before your visit. Some offices have thier forms on thier website which you can download and print.  Bring them with you to the appointment, completed.  Along with any medical records, or in this case latest x-rays, your insurance cards and drivers license.

You just breeze in and everythings done!

I Believe In Miracles!

I do.  I believe God shows us miracles everyday -small and large.  A friend sent me this in an e-mail last year and every once in a while I look at it and...... it still makes the hair on my arms stand up.

Look at the picture and you can see where this guy broke through the guardrail, right side where the people are standing on the road (pointing). The pick-up was traveling from right to left when it crashed through the guardrail. It flipped end-over-end, across the culvert outlet, and landed right side up on the left side of the culvert, facing the opposite direction from which he was traveling.

Now look at the 2ND picture below...

The “Jones’” Have Nothing On Us

We’ve all heard the saying “Keeping up with the Jones’”. Every one of us knows that particular family or individual who, no matter what, seems to need the biggest home, best “tricked out” SUV or sports car, largest plasma screen TV, and all the best toys money and credit can buy. Our society as a whole is bombarded with television commercials, marketing ploys, random sales calls to our homes with the hope that we are convinced we cannot live without whatever service or product they are selling. This is the greatest financial and mental trap we can fall into. What pleasure do you receive if you are working overtime, or maybe a second job and avoiding the bill collection calls? Is that purchase or service increasing the quality of your life or draining you financially and physically? Are you a slave to your own lifestyle?
With some changes in your thinking, habits and work ethics you can create and shape the life that suits you, soothes you and enhances your world.